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Zillertal Arena, Austria

Zillertal, Tyrol

The broad Zillertal Arena ski fields with chairlift lines, a sea of cloud and distant peaks below
photo Henk Monster · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized
Altitude
1,274 mbase station 1,784 mtop station 510 mvertical drop
Pistes 245 km red 60%, blue 28% Lifts 54 44 named on the list Snowfall
652 cmtotal across 6 winter months
Lift pass not checked yet Places to stay 30 closer than 300 m to a lift Trip plannertest version Closest place to stay 66 m from a lift

Runs by difficulty

  • blue 69.6 km
  • red 146.5 km
  • black 29.2 km

The split comes from OpenStreetMap. A run with no difficulty tag falls into none of the three bars, so they can add up to less than the resort total.

Piste map

Drawn by us from open data, with terrain shading. Interactive: zoom, pan and follow the runs right here.

Base map: OpenFreeMap on data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), terrain relief: Mapterhorn
This is a geographic map, not the painted panorama a resort publishes: the runs are where they really are, but the mountain is not drawn as a bird’s-eye view.

Lift pass

We have not checked lift pass prices for this resort yet.

How much snow is forecast

No snowfall is forecast for the days ahead — computed for 1,784 m above sea level.

0 Su
0 Mo
0 Tu
0 We
0 Th
0 Fr
0 Sa
0 Su

This is a weather-model forecast, not a measurement taken on the mountain: it says how much snow is expected to fall. Forecast: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0. Data fetched 15 August, 05:26.

See where most snow is coming

When to go: Zillertal Arena

A ten-winter average, computed from a weather archive for a point at :elevation m above sea level.

132 124 98 108 7 Dec – 20 Dec 11 Jan – 31 Jan 1 Mar – 14 Mar
Dec Jan Feb Mar
day -2° -3° 0° 2°
night -8° -10° -8° -6°

Average snowfall per month, in centimetres. Below the axis: average day and night temperature.

The lifts usually run here from 4 Dec to 11 Apr, and that is the span of the chart. Dates published by the resort, checked 2026-08-15.

average snowfall, cm/month threshold: 70 % of the snowiest month

quiet moderate holiday peak too little snow or outside the holiday calendar snowy and quiet

The colours under the axis show school-holiday traffic per week of winter 2026/2027, from the holidays chapter — the curve is a long-term average, the traffic is this one season. A green band marks a quiet week in a month with at least 70 % of the snowiest month’s snowfall. This season: 7 Dec – 20 Dec, 11 Jan – 31 Jan, 1 Mar – 14 Mar.

This is snowfall, not snow depth on the slope: it says how much usually falls in a given month, not how much lies there. The measuring point sits close to the valley floor, so higher up it snows more.

Source: ERA5-Land (ECMWF), Copernicus Climate Data Store. Averaged over 2017–2026.

Full page on timing

School holidays and slope crowds

Which weeks of winter 2026/2027 fill these slopes with school-holiday traffic — computed from the official school calendars of the countries that ski here most. A darker week means more markets on holiday at once.

Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr

quiet moderate holiday peak

Holiday dates from official sources: CZ, DE, GB, NL, PL. Dates for GB are approximate — they are set locally by region, school or council.

Lifts

Names and types from OpenStreetMap. Unnamed lifts are left out of this list, so it can be shorter than the count at the top of the page.

  • Dorfbahn Gerlos I gondola
  • Dorfbahn Gerlos II gondola
  • Dorfbahn Königsleiten I gondola
  • Dorfbahn Königsleiten II gondola
  • Duxer 6er Bubble chairlift
  • Duxer-X-Press chairlift
  • Duxerlift platter lift
  • Ebenfeld X-Press chairlift
  • Eberharters Almdorflift T-bar
  • Falschbach gondola
  • Filzstein I platter lift
  • Filzstein II platter lift
  • Fussalm X-Press chairlift
  • Handlalmlift T-bar
  • Hanser X-Press chairlift
  • Isskogelbahn gondola
  • Kapauns chairlift
  • Karspitz X-Press chairlift
  • Karspitzbahn I gondola
  • Karspitzbahn II gondola
  • Kinderland Mühlachalm rope tow
  • Kreuzjoch X-Press chairlift
  • Kreuzwiesen-X-Press chairlift
  • Krummbach X-Press chairlift
  • Königsleiten Gipfelbahn gondola
  • Larmachbahn chairlift
  • Mitterlegerbahn chairlift
  • Moseltret X-Press chairlift
  • Märchenwald T-bar
  • Märchenwald Babylift rope tow
  • Mühlachalm rope tow
  • Plattenanger I T-bar
  • Plattenanger II T-bar
  • Plattenkogel X-Press I chairlift
  • Plattenkogel X-Press II chairlift
  • Plattenkogellift T-bar
  • Rosenalmbahn 1 gondola
  • Rosenalmbahn 2 gondola
  • Sonnwendkopfbahn gondola
  • Speedy Filzsteinbahn chairlift
  • Stuanmandlbahn gondola
  • Teufeltal chairlift
  • Vorkogel T-bar
  • Wilde Krimml gondola

Places to stay by the lift

Distance is measured in a straight line to the base station of the nearest lift. No booking site publishes that number — it comes from matching accommodation against lift geometry.

  • 30 within 300 m
  • 198 within 1 km
  • 723 places in the valley

The closest one stands 66 m from a lift.

Work out the cost of the triptest version

The planner splits travel, lodging and lift passes by the number of people. Room prices are fetched for the dates you give.

Photos

A groomed Zillertal Arena slope at dusk, the top-station building on the right and snowy ridges behind
photo FuntyZapfl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · resized

Is Zillertal Arena worth it?

Zillertal Arena is one of four separate ski areas in the Zillertal valley — it runs from Zell am Ziller through Gerlos to Königsleiten, already on the Salzburg side. It advertises one of the longest descents in the region, a run of more than ten kilometres from above Gerlos down the valley. This is terrain for clocking up kilometres, not for hunting steep faces.

In our measurement from OpenStreetMap it comes to about 170 km of pistes, with a clear majority of intermediate runs — there are more reds here than anything else, and few blacks. For a confident intermediate it is comfortable ground; anyone after steepness will find little of it.

The slopes lie lower than the high French resorts and drop to the valley floor at around 1,270 m, so snow here depends more on snowmaking and weather than it does on glaciers. The season usually runs from early December to mid-April.

We give the ski pass as a six-day adult ticket: €399 from the resort's rate list (checked 13 August 2026). Check prices with the operator before you travel. The drive from Poland is one of the shortest in this set: about 900 km from Wrocław, 875 from Katowice, 951 from Kraków.

Resorts nearby

Straight-line distance, from the OpenStreetMap roster — the road through the valley is usually longer. The second figure is piste length.

  • Gerlosstein / Hainzenberg Austria 10 km away · 8 km of piste
  • Ski Juwel Alpbachtal Wildschönau Austria 16 km away · 139 km of piste
  • Hochfügen - Zillertal Austria 16 km away · 213 km of piste
  • Spieljoch - Fügen Austria 18 km away · 18 km of piste
  • Mayrhofen Hippach Austria 20 km away · 133 km of piste
  • Wildkogel Austria 21 km away · 137 km of piste
  • Ski Juwel - Reith im Alpbachtal Austria 21 km away · 9 km of piste
  • Niederau (Wildschönau) Austria 22 km away · 54 km of piste

Compare Zillertal Arena with its neighbours: Zillertal Arena vs Mayrhofen · Zillertal Arena vs SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental · Zillertal Arena vs KitzSki · Zillertal Arena vs Hintertuxer Gletscher

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Where this comes from

Piste and lift geometry and their names: OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL licence.

Terrain shading computed from public elevation data.